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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:55AM (#40993761)
They'll pry my mini from my cold dead (regular sized) hands
Re:Show HN: Waywise – an iOS travel guide for any* city on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:23PM (#40987541)
Excellent - let me know how you get on in Spain!

I definitely had some hallucinations to start off with. Mainly when I hadn't quite nailed down the prompts and it was just making up train stations in Oaxaca (turns out there aren't any intercity train stations in Oaxaca). From my testing though they all seem to have been ironed out but I'm constantly tweaking to improve.

Show HN: Waywise – an iOS travel guide for any* city

Posted by maxboyd on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:29AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://waywi.se

Hi everyoneAbout a year ago I was travelling to Mexico for a trip and forgot to cancel my Duolingo trial (because of course I did), so accidentally committed myself to learning Spanish badly. My Spanish-speaking partner noticed that I'd been learning a slightly more latin version so it was a good thing I was going to Mexico, but it got me thinking: most translation apps/phrasebooks are one...

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